Preliminary results from the midterm elections in the Philippines could consolidate President Rodrigo Duterte's power for the remainder of his term, and set the stage for his eldest daughter to make a bid to succeed him as president in 2022.

Foreign policy has barely rated a mention in the Federal Election campaign.

Sri Lanka is facing the bleak prospect of more minority-based violence unless it can find a way to reconcile its religious and ethnic populations in a unified project of statehood.

Guests on A Foreign Affair discuss elections in Indonesia and Slovakia, questions over reforms in Saudi Arabia and paying off the children of murdered journalist Jamal Khashoggi and new hiking trails in South Korea, just bring your bullet proof vest.

The eminent military historian, Antony Beevor, continues applying his forensic mind and storytelling to events around the battle for the bridges, specifically that of Arnhem, in 1944. Exposing the faults in the plans by British Field Marshall Montgomery, the cover up by the press and the devastating affect it had on Polish fighters and the Dutch people.

Australia's chief spy Nick Warner listed the international rules based order as one of the threats Australia must contend with as the power of states rather than the rules that inform the behaviour of states is more important than it used to be. Former Director-General of the Australian Office of National Assessments Alan Gyngell goes one step further saying it is indeed over. So what does this mean for our international structures and alliances?

Ambassador Stephen Rapp was appointed by President Barack Obama as the Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues, a global post he held for 6 years.

This month the A Foreign Affair discusses the sub meetings before G20 leaders arrive in Japan; French President Emmanuel Macron and his great debates; US warnings over China's loans to Pacific nations and visiting Syrian refugees.

According to biographer and Haaretz columnist and senior correspondent Anshel Pfeffer, Benjamin Netanyahu has always believed he is on the outer, despite, if he wins the upcoming election and isn't forced to resign due to corruption charges, almost holding the mantel for the longest serving leader of Israel. It is also the reason why he has the unwavering conviction that he and he only can save Israel.

Ukrainians head to the polls on the 31st March, the first time since the snap elections of 2014 that saw pro-Russian President Victor Yanukovuch replaced by incumbent President Petro Poroshenko. President Poroshenko though is struggling against candidate Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a comedian and actor who plays the President in a local TV sitcom, the only experience he has in politics.